Abstract: An extrusion coater for the production of a magnetic recording medium having at least one coater slot is described, the lower lip arranged in a direction opposite to the running direction of the substrate and displaced forward relative to the upper lip containing, in its interior, a permanent magnet which is oriented approximately parallel to the upper edge of the lower lip and whose field lines are roughly perpendicular to the coating direction of the magnetic dispersion flowing through the coater slot. By means of this arrangement, it is possible substantially to reduce the layer thickness while achieving a satisfactory coating and also considerably to reduce the edge bead.

Abstract: A system for coating a substrate with an ultra-thin layer includes moving the substrate through a coating station and forming a composite layer including a coming fluid and a carrier fluid. The composite layer flows at a rate that is sufficiently high to form a continuous flowing fluid bridge of composite layer to the substrate surface and to contact the substrate with the flowing composite layer to interpose the coating layer between the substrate and the carrier fluid. The carrier fluid is removed while leaving the coating fluid deposited on the substrate as a coating layer.

Abstract: A die coating method and apparatus includes a die having an upstream bar with an upstream lip and a downstream bar with a downstream lip. The upstream lip is formed as a land and the downstream lip is formed as a sharp edge. The shape of the land conforms to the shape of the surface being coated. Changing at least one of the slot height, the overbite, and the convergence can improve coating performance. A replaceable, flexible strip can be used above the coating slot to facilitate replacement of a damaged overbite edge. The strip can be held in position by vacuum applied through the downstream bar.

Abstract: A process for coating a metal substrate for packaging end use by applying to a primary substrate a thermosettable composition which is free of added solvent and has a residual solvent content not exceeding 10% derived from the manufacture of any of the ingredients. The composition is applied as a thermosettable film by extrusion in melt (including plastified) form through an extrusion coating die onto a substrate. There is relative movement between the die and the substrate so that successive areas on the substrate are coated with the thermosettable composition, so as to form a film. The primary substrate is the metal substrate for packaging end use or an intermediate temporary support from which the applied coating is transferred onto the metal substrate for packaging end use. The applied coating is thermally cured after extrusion through the extrusion coating die. Compositions suitable for use in this and other coating processes are described.

Abstract: A coating apparatus having an extrusion type coating head to form a coating on the surface of a support by extruding a coating liquid continuously or successively from a slit, wherein the slit is tapered so as to expand or become wider gradually from its inlet end so as to allow the coating liquid to be extruded toward its outlet end and apply the coating liquid onto the surface of the support and wherein an opening slit width (d1) at the inlet end of the slit and an opening slit width (d2) at the outlet end thereof satisfies the following relations:5% .ltoreq.[(d2-d1)/d1].times.100.ltoreq.20%.The arrangement of the slit can form a coating in a uniform film thickness by preventing the occurrence of irregularities or streaks on the surface of the coating or by suppressing a variation in film thickness.

Abstract: A method for coating a web with a coating material by applying a metered coating material onto the web and smoothing the applied coating material evenly onto the web with a flexible predoctoring blade. The coating material is applied to the web by the predoctoring blade in the form of a high velocity laminar flow in advance of the predoctoring blade. The coating mix is fed to a stem part of the flexible blade via an exit channel having a narrow opening. The loading of the flexible blade, acting as a smoothing device, is controlled in a cross direction of the web in order to control the cross directional profile of the applied coating web. The feed velocity of the laminar flow is at least one small m/sec.

Abstract: For the application of a coating material onto a running material web, particularly a paper or cardboard web, a cylinder guides the web of material while a dosing element extends over the work width and has a surface which together with the cylinder forms an application gap converging in the travel direction of the web. In order to be able to apply various coating materials at high web speeds evenly and without disturbances, even at low application weights, the dosing element is supported swingably about an axis parallel to the cylinder, the radius of its surface guiding the coating material increases continuously in the travel direction of the web up to the dosing line and the surface ends at the dosing line with an edge whose radius is less than 8 mm.

Abstract: An adjustable slot coater die (500) for use in a rotary coater device is provided, comprising a die manifold (502) into which hot melt material may be introduced and having a plurality of distribution channels; and an adapter (506) reversibly attachable to the die manifold, the adapter including at least one die opening (552) through which hot melt material may exit the die. The die opening (552) is formed by a notched shim plate (552) disposed between the adapter and a mouthpiece (508) attached thereto. Selected manifold distribution channels (530) of the plurality may be sealed to prevent hot melt material from exiting the manifold through the sealed distribution channels. The manifold also includes (i) a filter for filtering the flow of hot melt material flowing therethrough, and (ii) a plurality of heater cartridges installed at locations (536) therein.

Abstract: A cross flow knife coater includes a coating station through which a surface passes and a trough which extends transversely across the desired width of the coating. The trough has an opening through which coating fluid exits onto the surface without using a slot, and first and second transverse ends. The coating fluid is fed directly into the trough at a first transverse end, and is moved from the first transverse end of the trough, across the trough, and toward the second transverse end to cause the coating fluid to flow across the width of the trough while coating fluid exits the opening. The coater creates a spiral flow of coating fluid across the width of the trough which carries debris, bubbles, and other undesirables across the trough to a second traverse end where they can be vented. The perpendicular distance between the trough opening and the surface, and likewise between the knife and the surface, can be adjusted.

Abstract: In a coating apparatus having an extrusion coating head, the working value H of a back end edge which corresponds to an end portion at the downstream side of a support feeding direction of a back edge of the extrusion coating head is set to 25 .mu.m or less, and the straightness of said back end edge with respect to the coating width is set to 5 .mu.m or less. Accordingly, a coating operation to form coated films at a stable thickness can be stably performed without occurrence of streaks and coating unevenness on the films, and a judgment on coating surface characteristics can be readily performed without actually carrying the coating operation.

Abstract: The method and the device serve for soldering of workpieces, namely of pc boards and substrates, which are equipped with chip component parts and/or microelements and/or assemblies comprised thereof. Such boards are passed through a main solder bath or at least one main solder wave, and the workpiece is contacted with the surface of the wave. The solder wave has an imaginary break edge 2, i.e., a break edge at which the solder loses the contact with the workpiece in connection with an unwettable workpiece. The imaginary break edge 2 of the soldering device 1 extends not in a straight line and, viewed in the direction of conveyance 3, has at least one diminution 4, i.e., two edge parts ending in a point, i.e., the edges form a triangle.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for coating a surface of an elongated strip article, e.g. aluminum sheet, with a layer of solid polymer material. The process involves heating the polymer to produce a melt having a viscosity of at least 1000 centipoise when measured according to ASTM D4449 at 1 radian per second, extruding the melt onto a moving surface of the strip article through an elongated slot in a coating head having an extended surface adjacent to the slot arranged at an angle to the moving surface to form a coating gap converging in the direction of movement, thereby forming a coating on the strip article, and pushing the coating head towards the surface of the strip article as the melt is extruded as the coating onto the surface from the slot to reduce the coating thickness to a desired range by pressing the extended surface of the coating head onto the coating as the coating is formed.

Abstract: A photoresist dispensing apparatus coats a wafer with potoresist to define a layer having substantially uniform thickness. The apparatus receives photoresist into a reservoir. The photoresist flows from the reservoir to a substantially planar channel formed between parallel plates. The photoresist flows between the plates towards an elongated straight-edge exit opening. The surface tension and the viscous forces of the photoresist causes a bead to form at the exit opening. By passing a wafer beneath the dispenser apparatus at the exit opening so as to contact the bead, the surface tension is broken. As a result, the photoresist flows onto the wafer. The wafer is moved under the dispenser on tracks which maintain the wafer substantially level. The pressure from the photoresist in the reservoir maintains a steady flow of photoresist as the wafer passes below the dispenser. Accordingly, a substantially uniform layer of photoresist is applied. Photoresist layers as thin as 20 microns have been achieved.

Abstract: As a device used to paint a pattern such as a band, stripe or streak on the surface of an elongate and thin base material continuously supplied, a painting device is composed of at least a painting groove provided across the moving direction of the base material continuously supplied and having an opening formed along its both ends with a width wider than the width of the above-described base material in a manner not to be closed by the base material, a primary pipe communicated with the painted groove and a secondary pipe linked with the primary pipe, so that different kinds of paints are filled into the painting groove through the primary and secondary pipes to paint a pattern such as a band, stripe or streak over the whole surface of the base material in motion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a coating to a continuous length of tubing. A coating chamber having entry and exit ports substantially encloses a portion of the tubing while permitting the tubing to pass continuously therethrough. Airflow into the coating chamber through the exit port strips excess coating material from the tubing surface. Air is withdrawn from the coating chamber by vacuum pumps through one or more separation chambers which separate entrained particles or droplets of coating material from the air. The coating chamber is preferably disposed at a distance from the separation chamber(s). The vacuum line connecting the coating chamber with the separation chamber(s) is preferably flexible or breakable. The separation chambers are preferably capable of being operated in series or in parallel. Adjustable masks are preferably provided at the entry and exit ports of the coating chamber. A seal is preferably provided at the entry port.

Abstract: A method of applying a liquid to a flexible substrate and more particularly to a method in which a magnetic liquid or the like is applied to a flexible area so that a thin liquid film is disposed on the carrier for manufacturing an application-type magnetic recording medium. The method includes positioning carrier and a back edge portion of an application head near each other, discharging the liquid from a slot provided in the head and lapping the carrier and the doctor edge portion of the head, located downstream of the slot, with each other at a predescribed lap angle for the application, and thereafter performing the application. The method further includes moving a path roller which is disposed upstream of the head and to adjust the lap angle, discharging the liquid from the slot of the head and moving the carrier to the head. According a further aspect of the invention, a downstream roller is moved in the direction of the carrier to further adjust the lap angle of the doctor edge portion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the coat profile in short dwell time coaters and similar apparatuses in which the coating mix is applied to the web, over a brief time interval, in an application chamber disposed immediately upstream of a doctoring element. Excess coating mix flows counter to the running direction of the web over the front edge of the application chamber. The distance between the web and the front edge of the coating chamber is adjustable, allowing the cross-machine profile of the coating to be controlled.

Abstract: To knife-coat elastic liquids without the presence of flow instability, the extension rate in the upstream region of the coating bead is kept low by increasing the distance over which the liquid must accelerate. The onset of the flow instability is delayed by insuring that the upstream liquid-air interface of the coating bead is relatively long and flat. This is accomplished by allowing the elastic liquid to pull itself over a relatively large distance out of a trough and into the knifing passage. The liquid is able to ascend into the knifing passage by virtue of liquid tension developed by the extensional flow in the upstream region of the coating bead.

Abstract: An applicator is disclosed for inserting a substance into a body cavity. An apparatus for coating paper and a method of forming the paper into an applicator are also disclosed. The applicator is especially useful for inserting a catamenial tampon into a woman's vagina. The applicator includes a tubular member formed from at least one layer of paper which has an exterior surface. The tubular member is capable of holding the substance which is to be inserted. The exterior surface of the tubular member is coated with a water-insoluble coating which is comprised of from between about 95 to about 98 percent by weight of a polymeric material and from between about 2 to about 5 percent by weight of a slip agent. The coating provides the tubular member with a dry coefficient of kinetic friction ranging from between about 0.35 to about 0.56 and a wet coefficient of kinetic friction ranging from between about 0.78 to about 1.06.

Abstract: A coater head has a housing which defines a coating pond supplied with coating under pressure. A plurality of bars extend within the coating pond in the cross-machine direction, and are spaced parallel to one another in the machine direction. A paper web is engaged against a backing roll, and travels through the coating pond past a metering blade which applies coating from the pond to the web. The bars induce a turbulent flow which shears bubbles of air entrained in the coating pond, thereby reducing the bubble diameters and air-induced imperfections in the coating. Greater machine speed, which tends to entrain more air, induces greater shear at the bars which causes bubble size to be more greatly reduced.

Abstract: A fountain applicator for applying coating liquid onto a web of paper carried past the applicator, has a coating liquid flow path that includes a curved surface along which a sheet of the coating liquid is flowed to subject the sheet to centrifugal force to cause air entrained in the coating liquid to move away from one side of the sheet that is toward the curved surface, so that the one side is relatively free of entrained air. After being flowed along the curved surface, the sheet of coating liquid is directed toward the web in a free standing jet curtain of coating liquid, to contact the web surface primarily with the one relatively air-free side of the coating liquid sheet to decrease the occurrence of skip coating on the web surface, especially when the web is traveling past the applicator at high speeds. The coating is applied in excess onto the web surface and is metered and leveled to a desired coat weight by a downstream doctor.

Abstract: A coating method in which a surface of a web 7, which is supported by a pair of support rolls 2 and 3 so as to run continuously along a back edge surface 4 and a doctor edge surface 5 of a coating head 1, is coated with a coating composition by the coating head 1. The coating method includes setting an optimum coating condition by adjusting the distance b from a top end portion 10 of a slot 6 to each of the points of tangency 8 and 9 where the web 7 contacts the respective support rolls 2 and 3 on the basis of a relation expression under the consideration of the thickness t, Young's modulus E and Poisson's ratio .nu. of the web 7, the deviation .delta. of rotation due to the eccentricity of each of the support rolls 2 and 3, and the carrying tension T per unit width of the web 7; and extruding the coating composition continuously from the top end portion 10 of the slot 6 of the coating head 1 to the surface of the web 7.

Abstract: A rigid metal housing is positioned downstream of a coating applicator. The housing supports a plurality of positionable contact elements formed of a low friction, high wear-resistant material, which extend inwardly from the housing to engage a slow speed rotating rod. At least one of the contact elements is adjustable to support the rod for stable rotation, and to retain an effective seal between the contact elements and the rod to thereby prevent leakage of clearing/lubricating fluid into the applied coating. The contact elements may be advanced inwardly as the elements and the rod wear, thereby extending the effective life of the rod holder apparatus. Screws may bear against a rear contact element through segmented backing plates allowing refinement of the coat weight along the width of the substrate. Furthermore, an air tube may be positioned between the housing and a rear fixture to adjust overall coating thickness.

Abstract: A metering rod type coating applicator is provided with a metering rod having its peripheral surfaced texture to a texture in a range of Ra 0.06 to Ra 1.6 to improve the application of coating to a moving surface and permit uniform coating application using higher solids content coatings and/or lower coat weights. Preferably, the rod will be rotated at a speed significantly higher than that conventionally used and preferably with a peripheral velocity in the range of about 15 to 20 m/min.

Abstract: An extrusion coating head which is disposed between a drier for performing a non-contact drying operation and a support roll located at the upstream side of and nearest to the drier is designed so that a back edge surface thereof is designed to have an round surface having a radius of curvature R which satisfies the following inequality: 3 mm.ltoreq.R.ltoreq.30 mm, and the entire R-surface portion of the back edge of the coating head is located at a position higher than a tangential line drawn to the front edge surface at a slit-side edge point of the front edge so as to project toward the web side. The running web is coated with the coating liquid by the extrusion-type coating head, and then dried through a non-contact drying process.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for improved coating of small solid particles with a melt of a material which solidifies at room temperature. The device includes a rotatable turbine body and conduits for supplying solid particles and molten material to the rotatable turbine body. The turbine body is rotated by a hollow drive shaft and is provided with a series of heating conduits extending through the drive shaft and the turbine body for heating the turbine body. The turbine body can be heated to a controlled temperature to maintain the molten material at a desired temperature by varying the temperature of a heating agent which is supplied through the heating conduits.

Abstract: A liquid flow distribution apparatus for forming highly uniform liquid layers on substrates without stagnation within a flow distribution cavity of the apparatus. A primary cavity has a primary inlet means and a plurality of secondary inlet conduits which terminate in angled secondary ports in the cavity wall. Each of the secondary ports is angled away from the primary inlet means. The apparatus can be used under varying rheological conditions.

Abstract: In an extrusion type coating head according to the present invention, a center line average roughness (Ra) of an inner wall surface of a pocket is made in a predetermined range of 3.5 .mu.m or less and preferably a curvature part is provided, in the part where a surface of a slit joins to a surface of the pocket, which has the radius of curvature R of within a predetermined range. By these configurations, an easiness of cleaning in the pocket of the extrusion type coating head which is difficult to be cleaned is remarkably improved in particular, the rate of operation is improved, labor is saved, and adverse effects are prevented that might be brought by insufficient cleaning on the product coating such as streak generated on the coating surface and thickness fluctuation in the coating.

Abstract: A device for predosing coating composition on a traveling web of paper. A guide member extends obliquely toward the web. Downstream in the path of the web past the guide member, a doctor element is supported spaced from the tip of the guide member for defining a pressure space between the a guide member and the doctor element. Coating composition is fed through a feed channel between the guide member, on the one hand, and the doctor element and the supports for the doctor element up to the pressure space, on the other hand. An exit slot from the pressure space between the guide member and the web is defined at the tip of the guide member. The guide member has a guide surface down from the tip of the guide member, on the side of the guide member away from the doctor element which faces generally toward the web. The guide surface defines a return channel for coating composition that has moved out of the pressure space and through the slot.

Abstract: A jet coating apparatus and method for applying coating mix onto a moving web in a noncontacting manner in ambient pressure. The apparatus includes an upper lip placed close to the web, a lower lip situated in the vicinity of the upper lip and arranged essentially on the trailing side relative to the moving direction of the web. The slot orifice bounding surface of the upper lip and the slot orifice bounding surface of the lower lip form a slot orifice suited for feeding the coating mix onto the web. In the slot orifice, at least the directional vector along the slot orifice surface of the lower lip has a vector component opposite to the tangential velocity vector of the web.

Abstract: A coating method for applying a coating composition mainly containing an organic solvent onto a running flexible support 11 by ejecting the coating composition in an oversupply state from a slit 9 under pressure. A back edge top end surface 14 on the upstream side in the direction of running of the support with respect to the slit is set so as to be substantially parallel to the surface of the support. A liquid-detached position in which the coating composition ejected from the slit to overflow the slit is detached from a surface of the support 11 is set so as to be placed on the back edge surface opposite to the support.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for coating magnetic dispersion coatings on a continuously moving web substrate wherein regions of high shear are provided both before and after a magnetic dispersion application region. The coating apparatus comprises a die unit having a magnetic dispersion inlet and outlet, a concave lip extending arcuately from the outlet of the die unit, and a cylindrical backing roller adjacent the die unit, the die unit having an internal region of high shear, the concave lip and the cylindrical backing roller sharing a substantially common axis and forming a region of high shear in the form of a narrow gap. A coat hanger distribution chamber or cavity is also provided within the die unit between the magnetic dispersion inlet and the magnetic dispersion outlet. To even out pressure differences, a healing slot or cavity and/or a rotating bar within a cylindrical distribution chamber may be provided downstream of the coat hanger distribution chamber.

Abstract: The invention concerns a coating system for running webs of cardboard or paper which are carried, or backed, by at least two moving surfaces, in which system the coating substance is applied first on at least one moving surface carrying the web and thereafter transferred, in a press gap formed by the moving surfaces, on the web on one or both sides. The invention is characterized by the following features: the moving surfaces are formed by two continuous belts; the belts proceed jointly with the web contained in between successively through a first press gap and through a second press gap, with each press gap being formed by two rolls that are movable relative to each other; the rotatable roll body of each of the rolls of the second press gap is backed against flexure by means of a stationary element; the diameter of the rolls of the second press gap amounts to maximally one-half, preferably less than one-third, of the diameter of the rolls of the first press gap.

Abstract: Disclosed is a continuous process of non-compressively and uniformly applying a liquid saturant throughout a permeable sheet. The process includes the steps of: 1) providing a continuously advancing permeable sheet having a first surface and a second surface, 2) depositing a substantially laminar flowing curtain of a liquid saturant generally across and onto the first surface of the continuously advancing permeable sheet, 3) applying a vacuum to the second surface of the continuously advancing permeable sheet, and 4) drawing a substantial portion of the liquid saturant through the permeable sheet to generate a substantially uniform distribution of liquid saturant throughout the permeable sheet. The process may also include the step of drying the liquid saturated permeable sheet. The dry bulk of the liquid saturant treated permeable sheet may be within about 15 percent of the dry bulk of an identical untreated permeable sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a die coater comprising a die composed of upper and lower mold-pieces which form a manifold and a slit extending from the manifold, an inner deckle shaft disposed in the manifold, a deckle disposed in the slit in a fluid-tight state, and a deckle guide; the inner deckle shaft having a fluid-tight portion near an end thereof and capable of moving with its fluid-tight state kept, the deckle and the deckle guide being secured to the inner deckle shaft, and the deckle being connected with the fluid-tight portion of the inner deckle shaft.

Abstract: A coating apparatus is disclosed for coating a web of paper. The apparatus includes a first and second roll having axes of rotation disposed parallel relative to each other such that the rolls define therebetween a first nip for the selective passage therethrough of the web. A backing roll has a peripheral surface which cooperates with the first roll for defining therebetween a second nip. A coater cooperates with the peripheral surface for applying coating material to the web when the web is guided by the surface and disposed between the surface and the coater. A further backing roll has a further peripheral surface which cooperates with the second roll for defining therebetween a third nip. A further coater cooperates with the further surface for applying coating material to the web when the web is guided by the further surface and disposed between the further surface and the further coater.

Abstract: In a coating apparatus where a coating composition is supplied from the lateral side of a manifold, a linear or curved taper along the width of the coating apparatus is given to the length a slit in the direction of flowing-out of the coating composition, so that the slit length is shorter in the counter-supply side than in the supply side of the manifold. The coating apparatus can make the distribution of the quantity of coating uniform in the case where the width of coating is large, or in the case where the quantity of flow per unit width in an individual layer is large.

Abstract: Apparatus for coating a strip article comprises a coating head having a coating surface and elongated open-sided slot formed in the coating surface communicating with an interior channel for delivery of coating material to said slot for transfer to a strip article to be coated. The slot has a slot extension extending into the coating surface at at least one longitudinal end of the slot for applying coating material to an edge region of the strip article. The slot extension communicates with the interior channel only through a constricted opening that prevents substantial leakage of coating material from the slot extension when the slot extension becomes uncovered by the edge region of the strip article. In this way, the strip article can be coated completely up to its transverse edges, without risk of substantial spillage of coating material if the ends of the coating slot become uncovered by the strip article due to inaccurate tracking or variable strip width.

Abstract: A method of applying a coating fluid 5 with a coating head 1 having a front edge 3 and a back edge 4 receding in a direction opposite to the support from the front edge in a liquid seal state with a precoat fluid 7 of low viscosity consisting essentially of an organic solvent previously applied to the application face of the support 2. The coating fluid 5 is spouted from a slot at the rear of the front edge while the coat thickness of the precoat fluid is adjusted by setting the run speed of the support to 400 m/min or higher, the curvature R (mm) of the top surface of the front edge as a curved surface to 1.ltoreq.R.ltoreq.5, tension of the support, T (kg/m), to 10.ltoreq.T.ltoreq.30, and the incidence angle of the support on the front edge, .alpha., to the range of -0.5.degree. to 2.degree..

Abstract: A coating machine comprising a backing roll and a lip-type nozzle with a doctor edge. The nozzle comprises a first chamber connected to the inlet, a passage, and an outlet for discharging the liquid coating material under pressure toward a web on the backing roll. The outlet comprises a recess in the upper wall of the nozzle body extending toward the doctor edge to form a second chamber at the outlet. A pressure sensor is arranged in the second chamber. A thickness sensor is arranged to detect the thickness of the coated layer. The nozzle is adjustably supported to the machine frame by the left-end, central, and right-end support means, which are controlled in accordance with outputs of the pressure sensor and the thickness sensor so as to obtain a uniform coating layer. Also, the speed of the pump for delivering a coating material is suitably controlled.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for dispensing a polymer foam includes apparatus for forming a pressurized solution of intermixed polymeric material and gas. The polymeric material remains intermixed with the gas while the solution is maintained above a critical pressure. The pressurized solution is dispensed in wide band through an elongated slot. The dispensing apparatus includes an exit slot section in which the pressure of the solution drops below the critical pressure and the foam begins to form. The solution is maintained above the critical pressure until the solution enters the exit slot section so that premature foaming of the material is prevented.

Abstract: An apparatus for bead coating a substrate with an organic solvent-based coating solution by the use of a slide hopper is disclosed, which is useful for preventing deflection of the members due to changes in temperature stemming from evaporation of the organic solvent and for maintaining a narrowed gap between the lip of the hopper and the substrate with high precision, in which the slide hopper is composed of a raw material with a coefficient of linear expansion of 3.times.10.sup.-6 or less, or composed of an alloy comprising 9.0% to 10.5% by weight of chromium, 52.5% to 56.0% by weight of cobalt and the remainder consisting of iron and other inevitable impurities.

Abstract: An improved surface treatment system, assembly, workstation and method for plating and the like. The assembly includes a suction pump along the treating liquid discharge end to circulate treatment fluid and avoid leakage. The assembly includes a member defining a fluid passage within the interior surface of a workpiece which is connected to a treating liquid feed channel and a treating liquid discharge channel. Advantageously, a washing fluid inlet is provided to permit a workpiece to be both treated and washed at the same workstation. The assembly may be used with a cover as an additional means to avoid leakage.

Abstract: An coating apparatus comprises at least two coating bars along which a support member is conveyed in a running direction, wherein a center line mean roughness (Ra) on the edge at the downstream side of the downstream bar is not larger than 0.5 .mu.m and the maximum height (Rmax) on the edge is not larger than 6.0 .mu.m.

Abstract: A coating head includes slit wall members forming a slit therebetween. A surface of the wall members corresponding in position to an exit portion of the slit is finished so as to have a center line mean roughness not larger than 0.1 .mu.m.

Abstract: A method for calendering a suture includes passing the suture lengthwise between two pairs of calendering rollers each pair being oriented orthogonally to the other pair. The suture may be coated and/or filled by passing it through the contacting region of a suture filling applicator to which filling agent is supplied by a metering pump. The filling process may be computer controlled.

Abstract: A device for coating a material web includes a rotatable applicator roll having a surface for collecting a film of a coating composition thereon. The roll has a length defined by first and second ends thereof and a middle region disposed between the first and second ends. The device also includes a blade having an edge. The blade is attached to a blade holder and extends along the length of the applicator roll. The blade and the applicator roll surface form an acute angle and define a coating composition sump. The blade edge and the applicator roll surface define an inlet gap. A doctor element attached to a doctor element holder is disposed downstream of the blade with respect to a direction of rotation of the applicator roll. The blade, the blade holder, the doctor element, and the doctor element holder define, at least in part, an application chamber. At least one of the elements defining the application chamber has bores or other openings for regulating coating composition thickness on the applicator roll.

Abstract: Processes for uniformly coating substrates, including applying fluid substantially simultaneously onto at least two sides of a substrate. In one aspect, the invention provides positioning a substrate above one or more fluid applicators, and flowing fluid through the one or more fluid applicators upwardly onto the substrate, the fluid applied with a controlled volume per unit surface area of the substrate. A substrate surface also may be aligned along a substantially vertical plane with fluid being applied laterally. In another aspect, at least one fluid applicator faces a first side of a substrate and at least one applicator faces a second side of the substrate, and fluid flows through the fluid applicators onto the first and second substrate sides, the fluid applied with a controlled volume per unit surface area of the substrate.

Abstract: A short dwell coater apparatus is disclosed for applying coating material to a web supported by a backing member. The apparatus includes a housing which defines an application zone having an upstream and a downstream end. The application zone extends in a cross-machine direction across the web and is connected to a source of the coating material such that the coating material is applied to the web during movement of the web past the application zone. An elongate pipe is disposed within the application zone and extends in a cross-machine direction across the application zone. The pipe defines at least one orifice for the passage therethrough of the coating material. The pipe is connected to the source of coating material such that the coating material flows through the pipe and through the orifice for supplying coating material to the application zone.

Abstract: A coating apparatus comprises an upstream lip and a downstream lip defining a slot between the two lips through which a coating liquid can be extruded; and a pair of guide rollers disposed on opposite side of the lips for guiding a support to move past the lips such that the coating liquid can be applied thereto, wherein the downstream lip has a coating operation surface facing and curved toward the support and, a curvature k of the curved coating operation surface being given asP.sub.2 /T.ltoreq.k.ltoreq.P.sub.1 /Twhere T represents the tension in the coated portion of the support, and P.sub.1 and P.sub.2 represent the pressures of the coating liquid acting on the support at upstream and downstream ends of said coating operation surface.